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August 24, 2010

I know my readers are crafty folk and that they will appreciate this giveaway as much as I did when I was asked to review it. I think I was on cloud nine for days.

The winner of this giveaway will receive one silhouette machine with cuttings mediums as well as a $10 gift card to the Silhouette Online Store.

I definitely recommend visiting the site and especially the blog which has a ton of great ideas and mediums including magnet paper, tattoo paper and metallic sketch pens!

First off I want to differentiate this from the Cricut which IMHO has nothing on the Silhouette. The major difference being you DON'T have to buy EXPENSIVE cartridges which (to me) makes the Cricut cost prohibitive. You have the freedom to create whatever you want. Whatever font you have installed on your computer, you can cut out with the Silhouette machine and your computer.You can cut images that are 39" long! That's long enough for a life sized birch tree vinyl cutout. Speaking of cutouts you can make your own images! Want to make a silhouette of your family's profiles to frame over the mantlepiece? YOU CAN with the Silhouette (I'm SOOO gonna try that).And here's another great part. If you want to purchase something from the Silhouette library (which has some GREAT boxes BTW) you can purchase them individually online for only 75 cents a piece. Compare that to Cricut which charges you $60 per cartridge with about 50 images you may or may not want and one font AND you'd have to drive out to the store to buy it.

Silhouette also has monthly design plans. For $19.99 a month you can download up to 200 designs of your OWN choosing. That's crazy.

Here were a few things I made with my machine. OOOooo you know what would be neat? Paper dolls!See how I did it here, here, here and here. I'll have a full tutorial later in the week with another silhouette project that you can do. Making the candy boxes were beyond easy. All I had to do was print, punch out and fold. If you had some pretty heavy weight scrapbooking paper this little project would take less than five minutes.

And here are a few things other people have made with their machines from flickr's: Silhouette Machine: theCREATIVEplace.If you would like to win this AMAZING machine there are a couple ways to enter.

Grosgrain Giveaways can be entered by one of three ways

1) By linking about this giveaway (to your blog, facebook, or any other site) button is below.
2) By going to Silhouette's site and leave a comment on Grosgrain about why you like Silhouette3) By FOLLOWING Grosgrain and leaving a comment on the silhouette secret posts

Just remember to please leave me a comment telling me what you did so that I can go back and look for your entry. Either give me the link that you posted for the giveaway to or tell me that you began to follow me.

GIVEAWAY ENDS AUGUST 31st

If you'd like to get ahead of the game and purchase a silhouette for yourself (which I highly recommend) use

PROMO CODE: GGF

Use the code and buy a machine between August 23rd through September 1st at midnight and receive the following:

Use the code and buy a machine between September 2nd through September 4th at midnightand receive the following:

$50 off (receive for $249.99)

2 rolls of Heat transfer ($29.89 value)

$10 Gift Card to the Silhouette Download Store(Comes in the Box)

Cutting Blade (Comes in the Box)

2 Cutting Mats(Comes in the Box)

All for $249.99

A savings of $79.98

If you are leaving a link just use the 'create a link' at the bottom of this post or simply creating a post on your blog and including this link.If you use blogger just use the "create a link" link at the bottom of this post. If you don't use blogger, that's fine too. Just create a link on your page as you normally would.

I want a silhouette so bad! I love that you don't have to buy cartriges and that it can help with glass etching!!! If I don't win, I will first cry, then beg and plead for one till my husband gives in.

well! It seems to me I am the very first one to leave a comment. I hope it's here where I should leave it because I love this little machine and I can imagine the things i can make with it not only for the house but for my classes (I teach Spanish), so please include in your giveaway. I am a follower of yours as well. Thanks a lot<Jimena

well! It seems to me I am the very first one to leave a comment. I hope it's here where I should leave it because I love this little machine and I can imagine the things i can make with it not only for the house but for my classes (I teach Spanish), so please include in your giveaway. I am a follower of yours as well. Thanks a lot<Jimena

well! It seems to me I am the very first one to leave a comment. I hope it's here where I should leave it because I love this little machine and I can imagine the things i can make with it not only for the house but for my classes (I teach Spanish), so please include in your giveaway. I am a follower of yours as well. Thanks a lot<Jimena

I am a follower and I linked. Am I supposed to leave a comment here why I like the Silhouette or on the Silhouette site? Why wouldn't I like one? What cant it do? Maybe I could label everything, even the dog! I think The first thing I would do is the combo mermaid-lizard birthday invites I need to make for my daughters birthday. Great giveaway! Thanks for the chance.

there are about a million things on the site i like. i would love to make tshirts (especially for our upcoming family vacation to disney world) and all the vinyl things i could cut - and then i would scrapbook like crazy. i have never seen so many options!! i would love to win!

What a wonderful gift! I'd love to create all these shapes from paper!I love to create from recycled materials: my recycled paper would be beautifully used with this machine.Thank you for this generous contest.Oré, A reader from Belgium.

I love this machine-- been dying to have one. I'm really wanting to use it to do some wall art for my little guy's big boy room. It will also be so handy for decorating baby gifts and holiday packages! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

I love this! I have wanted a Silhouette for a while now. It's just so versatile. The thing I want to do most is use it for the scrapbook pages and to make boxes/cutouts for baked goods. With a 3yr old and a 2mo old, there isn't a lot of time to scrapbook and this machine would make it so much easier!

I've been wanting one of these for a long time...BADLY! I LOVE how many different things you can do with it and not have to buy the expensive cartridges. I explained it to my husband as being like my embroidery machine for things besides sewing!

I've been following all week trying to guess, I had a feeling it was a silhouette! I could use this machine for my Sunday School class and all the showers and parties I help plan at church. Thank you for the giveaway!missy93073@yahoo.com

This machine looks really nice! I'm pretty new at scrap booking,but this machine would make this year's Christmas cards look really nice! I like this machine because you really get to express your creativity,but you don't have to be held back by expensive materials.I'm trying to follow you but my computer won't let me,I have been reading your blog for a while now.I hope I win this machine for my B-day!

Wow!!! I am a follower and I would really really like to win!! Money is a little tight so winning this would be awesome! I hand paint everything right now so this would save me tons of time!!! woo hoo! xo

I re-wrote my comment,because I didn't log into my Google account sorry about that.This machine looks really nice! I'm pretty new at scrap booking,but this machine would make this year's Christmas cards look really nice! I like this machine because you really get to express your creativity,but you don't have to be held back by expensive materials.I also follow you.I have been reading your blog for a while now.I hope I win this machine for my B-day!

I must not have had enough coffee yet this morning, because I'm unsure how to win this thing! Have no idea where the secret posts are at. I'm hoping that by telling you I'm one of your followers in this comment I am entered. Thanks for the awesome giveaway.azbelle3@yahoo.com

I follow you and left a comment in the Splenda or Sugar post :) This is a really neat giveaway. I've never heard of anything like it, but I've been working on redecorating a table and this would make the stenciling I was going to do on the top unnecessary and the finished project removable for my hubby's sake. It would be neat to win!

This machine looks so amazing and useful! One of my very favorite wedding gifts was made with a machine like this and I've been wanting to make something like it ever since! I'm still trying to get my own blog off the ground, but I linked it to my facebook page instead, and I feel like it's the first time in my life I've entered a giveaway that I care so much about! On a side note, I found your blog a little under a week ago and have been just devouring the old posts! Your scarf tutorial list last year is one of my favorites, and the dresses you make inspire me so much!

I would love a machine like this...I've been eying the Cricut, but this one seems much more practical. I already do a lot of sewing (just starting to sell my items) and this would be another way to embellish my work! I can't remember exactly how I found this blog, but I often do searches for tutorials and crafty things. Can't wait to see if I win this!!

Grosgrain: SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.comHow cool is this machine? I love that you can make temporary tattoos with Silhouette, I would have so much fun doing that!naomemandeflores@gmail.com10 seconds ago · Comment · Like · Share

what do I like??? What's not to like??? :) I super love that you don't have to buy cartridges for it. i also really like that you can design your own stuff for it. One of the things I really want to try is the heat transfer. I want to make shirts for the kiddos - but I also think a really fun graphic print would be great on a tote. I'd also really like to put vinyl up around the house! (I've got a spot in the family room all ready...)

With a new baby girl on the way - I would love to use the silhouette to make decorations for the wall above her crib - she will be in our room for a long time so I want to make her space as special as possible!

The Silhouette machine seems so versatile, and I think that is what makes it so nice. Although I haven't used one, I hear a lot of great comments about it, and I would love to have the opportunity to try it for myself!

I have entered to win one of these machines over a dozen times. They look so awesome but just not in the budget right now. I'm getting married next summer and could really use this for all my DIY projects (invites, bunting, paper corsages...)